Wanted to start a thread for Jamaica VJ'ers who are about to be scheduled an interview or who has been scheduled an interview in Jamaica.

My SO talked to the embassy on 1-21-08 and they told her that we would have an interview scheduled by late Feb. or early March. But still no word yet.

Has anyone been scheduled an interview yet for the months of Feb., March, or even April?

J&M - I haven't officially started my journey yet but I just wanted to congratulate you on being in the final stretch!

Thanks and I hope everything goes well for you.

Hey J.,

I called the embassy on Monday and they told me pretty much the same thing. They are very behind, but all late feb. Early March interviews should be scheduled by next week the LATEST!!!! I am at my wits end at this point!! I just want a date so I can book my fare and GET ON WITH IT!!!!

Bless-ed,
Gill

P.S- Let's keep in touch...it looks like we will be scheduled around the same time!! If I hear anything I will tell you...you hear anything PM mi...Zeen?

I will keep in touch....lets pray that we both get scheduled by next week and have our loved ones here by early March.

I wonder if that will go for IR-1 filers as well.....I really hope so.

I hope so my 6 year wedding anniversary is in May, my birthday is in March and my husbad b.day is in April.....they better hurry up cause I have big plans dammit and there messing up everything for me.....hmmmmmmm

I am pulling for all of you My dad probably won't have an interview date before the summer, but that's all good.

Hey guys;

Wanted to stop in and say great thread. I have seen many other interview threads started and wondered when a Ja thread would also be.

I was hopin Mike would get an interview around Feb/March but because he is getting a RFE, he is looking more like March/April.

I want to congraulate all those who have completed the process and are now waiting for their interview. Good luck all and I hope to be in your shoes one day.

You will be Clariey...hopefully sooner than later!! This whole process is T-O-R-T-U-R-E!!!!! I JUST WANT A DATE!!!!So I can guessestimate when this part of my wait will be OVER!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE KINGSTON EMBASSY START HANDING OUT DATES!!!!!

Ok, I'm better...thanks for the vent!

Bless-ed,
Gill

Since mi a newbi, mek mi ask dis question.

Why does it take so long for Kingston to schedule interviews once the package or packet has left NVC and has arrived there. Are there some many family based applicants going through Kingston and when the hell are they going to OPEN a consular office Montego Bay (I guess I'm day dreaming). Since dem raise up the cost for most of the applications, have SERVICE been improved there or anywhere else in the immigration process.

Me on my soap box again...SMADI please push mi aff but tek time.

Hello all.....

Our case was completed as of 12/13/07 and we still haven't received an interview date as of yet......His police record was clear and as far as I know all is well.......We are keeping our fingers crossed for a March interview date........Hopes got crushed when we didn't make a February date.......I keep praying to the Good Lord that we make a March date........

Peace & Love,
Tonya

LAWNY...dat is one goood rahtid question... when JA some how add acres and acres onto the island..mi no tink dem a go mek 2 embassy pon dat deh small island dere...

Kimmy u seet,

Cho man...fi real dem need fi do sum ting like dat. Mi feel sarry fi di people dem who live a Westmoreland and dem place deh and afi batabata pon di minivan fi go a Kingston. Mi woudah rass mad if mi afi git up fram 3 o'clock inna di mawnin and dem tell mi fi come back...I wouda cuss sum KISSCLATT inna di place...dem wouda lack mi up.

hahhaaaa fi real

LAWD Lawny...yuh fit hinna VJ perfect...mi haven't heard deh term batabata in donkey donkey years!!! Is true tho..its a pain inna deh rass fi guh town!

Bless Bless,
Gill

Hi Everybody! im praying for you guys tomorrow is Feb 1 some dates should be rolling out soon! for interviews

JALOVE!!!!!! OMG!!! I MISS YOU CHICA!!!!

From your mouth to G-ds EARS!!!! Mi hope seh yuh is right bout dat!!

Love yuh and DON'T BE A STRANGER!!!!

Gill

Andre left MoBay at 2:30 a.m. one time to go all the way to Kingston to drop off the DS230 when they allowed you to just pop in at a certain 2 hour time frame. They hit traffic. He was 2 minutes after the time and they wouldn't let him in. So, he rode all the way back home to come again a few days later. Everyone was pissed.

I have alot to catch up on on here. WOW i havent even read jawi story yet i have to tek time and check it out i bet she on novel numba three by now lol i think u will get ur date this week i hope so if it go anything like mine i got it the first week i think if i recall correctly wow time flies

Fuh REAL!!!! Gurrrrrrrl, I hope your are right about the date thing...it is enough to drive you crazy ...oh wait ...I am arready CRAZY!!

Well just know that you are missed!

Be good and do good,

Gill

There is a Consular office in Mobay, I've been there a few times, but its not good for much. Its catered to Americans since it is apart of the US Embassy. But more so for American tourists, or visitors to the island who may not be JA residents yet. I wish they would have an Embassy extension in Mobay. That woulda helped me out so many times. I have yet to go to Kingston, cause its just so far away from my family there and annoying to get to.

This whole wait for 3 months to get an interview date is ridiculous!! Seriously the CR1 visa would be so simple and easy if Jamaica didn't tack on an additional 60-90days after NVC to schedule an interview! I cannot believe that little island processes THAT many visas in one month!

I hear you Lita both about the damn Embassy extension and the interview scheduling thing!!

It's like you have to drop off your paperwork on the 2nd to last monday, but not during a full moon, half moon or quarter moon... before 2:51pm...but not after 2:52pm...in a green shirt wearing a red hat and black cowboy boots...They just make it DYAM DIFFICULT!!! I think they do it on purpose to deter visa applications!

Honestly...it's like fall in love with a US Citizen or you are a$$ out!!

Gill

OMG........that was funny but true.

Kingston

Typical Wait Time (Calendar Days*) for a Nonimmigrant Visa Interview Appointment

Visitors Visas: 91 Days
Student/Exchange Visitors Visas *** (Excludes: A, G, K, and V): 14 Days
All Other Nonimmigrant Visas: 14 Days

Typical Wait Time (Workdays**) for a Nonimmigrant Visa To Be Processed****: 4 Days

*Calendar days refer to every day of the week, including days when embassies are closed (such as weekends and holidays).
**Work days refer only to days when the embassy is open and does not include weekends and holidays.
*** The All Other Nonimmigrant Visa wait time DOES NOT include K or V visa applications, which are processed similar to immigrant visas. A and G applications are excluded from these wait times, as they are processed separately.
****IMPORTANT NOTE: Processing wait time DOES NOT include the time required for additional special clearance or administrative processing. These procedures require additional time. Most special clearances are resolved within 30 days of application. When additional administrative processing is required, the timing will vary based on individual circumstances of each case. Processing wait time also does not include the time required to return the passport to applicants, by either courier services or the local mail system.

MAWIN Lita how you do,

I know about the Consular office in Mobay. The only thing dat good fah, is if you a U.S. citizen and you get in some sort of trouble or something of the sort of if you lose your passport or travel documents. An police officer searched our car in Montego Bay and well, somethings were missing and my friends were very upset and we got into it with him and the officer arrested a male friend (US citizen) without cause, who was traveling with us. He said he tried to hit him, which was not true. We called the embassy in Kingston and someone from Montego Bay came to the station and he was released. The officer was out of line. I don't know about you ladies, but I feel that as a JAMAICAN that has been naturalized (I get treated differently). Especially, when I return and have to go through customs. Last year I traveled 8 times to Jamaica and each time I was drilled at immigration when I got to the island and when I returned to Baltimore.

JG,

I would have been PISSED as hell, but what can you do.

COULD BE, I look like a jamaican, and when they see in my passport that I'm from england, they ask are any of your parents jamaican. I always say NO.

Mi usually no have no problem..except dis one time ..dis fiesty gyal ask mi..u didn't bring anything for ur husband ? mi tell har no..mi cyant afford it... and den wid har brite self..."is this ring ur wedding band"... u no know how mi did waan trace har...no ###### mi just luv act like married and wear one ring pon dis blasted finga

KIM, girl don't get me started. The last time I went home I had a lot of things, because I was going for my engagement party. I don't matter how hard I try I always get the DRY FACE ooman in customs (face look like she did a role it in FLOUR). She take my passport, look in it and say, oh, Jamaican born, can you go over there please with you luggage. Then they dig up my suitcases, dropped some of my clothes on the floor, was just plain RUDE. So, you know I lost it. I started talking very loudly, THIS IS HOW YOU TREAT A U.S. CITIZEN that comes to visit JAMAICA. Her supervisor ran over immediately. Oh, wait, don't let me forget about the laptop I had to turn on and show her that I know how to use it and my DS handheld game system (she nevah know seh big woman play with those...a pickney things)...saying that to her co-worker. I told the supevisor I'm sick and tired of this treatment. I went through the same thing 6 times last year. It's as if they're picking on my FAMILY. they did my dad like that in April, June and September. They were very rude. What upsets me the most is that they DIG up your luggage and don't even attempt to try and fix your things back...

To remedy the situation the supervisor told me to tell them I'm comming on vacation. I told him, don't even bother. That's what I filled on of the form that they gave me on the plane and that's what I told immigration and the DRY FACE OOMAN ovah deh so. Because, mi a U.S. citizen but JAMAICAN born unu wah treat mi differently...no sah dat naw go wurk.

Next time mi ago pretend like mi DEAF and waraitclaat DUMB and MAD...

Lawny,

woieeee...good fi yuh...mi always except go inna "nuttin to declare" mi no have nuttin fi oonuh search ...DEM try fi FIX..yeah rite..an is always di tuff dry face one dem gim demself trouble...But when mi did a get married the ppl dem charge mi something like $900 between me and mi fren dem wi mussi did have 9 bags and den she come act like she do mi a favor bout "we didn't charge u for ur dress" like mi suppose to seh tonks...kissteet

Rahtid,

I thought that my friend was the only one they wanted to charge for her dress, shoes, tiara, vail, husband tux, his shoes...mi rass...I asked the oman if she was going to charge her fi ar patty tu. You know how DAVID's bridal have those $99 sales...she got one of those dress and the woman didn't believe her. It's a good thing I kept the receipt for my dress. The lady said that don't look like no hundri dollah dress

I had a bag of toys and clothes for Christmas one time. After they dug all through it, they wouldn't even look at the tags and receipts I had. I was fussing and cussing.....Eventually they "guessed" what the amount I should pay was. By that time, I was so tired of them, I said just get me the hell out of here. I ended up paying $20 more in customs then I paid for the whole lot of what I brought in.

And, I've always said they are too mean at the airport. It's the place I've seen Jamaicans treating other Jamaicans the rudest. I suppose if you give someone enough power, it will eventually to to their heads. Maybe they are just mad cause you can come and go and they can't.

JG,

I have been saying that for many, many years. I face the same problems when I stay at hotels. Somtimes I just get fustrated and tell dem bout dem MUMAH! I love it when I'm talked about in PATWAH and I'm standing right there...I wait and then I rip into them with my RAW KUNTRI PATWAH

**************I GOT A DATE**********

I called 202# today and they FINALLY gave me a date!!!!!!!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 @8:30am

Please call 202# and give them KNG #...I think the March dates ar in!!

Blessed Gill

Wah Haaa!!! Kimmy!!!

This reminds me of my time thru immigration and customs after being married. I never got asked much of anything before I was married and when i went after being married I got all sorts of questions. The immigration lady asked where my wedding was, my husbands name and address...his neighborhood the date of the wedding yada yada yada. i was like damn....you made cause you wasn't invited?!!

Then on to customs. I always get right thru. This time the lady look in my passport and say who yuh visit? i say my husband. She ask me what i carry down for him and his family. i say nothing, do I look like I'm rich and got all kinds of money to be showering people with random gifts!!! She took my word for it and let me go without a check. i didnt have nothing no way. But dang...some of the questions are stupid. Whats funny is that I think I'm being watched as a "drug smuggler"......long story.

What the .....

Why the charge you $900...mi mussa miss dat wan!? I went down with soooo many bags for my wedding it was ridiclous!! i had a whole suitcase full of Chinese umbrellas and another of glass vases...then I had tons of decorations....they didnt say nothing but..."aw how cute...a wedding" I can't believe they charged you. i had to disperse my luggage across 2 different flights too. Me and my 2 sisters went down early and had tons...then my mom came a day later with 2 additional ones. Girl I had one suitcase full of FOOD!! haha

You know...I gotta say it...I think Jamaicans are rude in customer service...just about anywhere on that island. Its crazy. maybe cause I'm American and used to better customer service...but man i have never seen such rude people. The food store, hair shop, bank, registrar, hotel, restuarant...it don't matter rude!!! But I think many jamaicans are used to it so they don't even notice the rudeness as much. They just go along with it, but me...i'm like "what in the world is going on here?!"

LITA ME TOO!!!!
The last time I went to JA I was back in the States (CHarlotte, NC) and I make it through customs and security and I was about to get my bag and this officer was standing there and was all like "let me see your passport, are you alone, why did you go, what do you do, what does your husband do, where did you stay" I was like "oh no you dont"

you know that i'm friggin jealous right now....mi still kno hear nothin

we aren't rude.....

Yes Shrewdie...all up in yuh bizness!! i don't know if they are supposed to be asking me these questions or not but man RUDENESS fi tru!!

Are you back stateside? or are you still on the island?

i think she back inna state

ROTFDWL....Lawd Lawny...is wat mi a guh duh wid yuh!! Good fuh yuh though...dem dyam facety han bright!

I memba wan time mi was LEAVING JA han dem guh through mi carry on han fine mi Bath han Bodi works good good lotion (a brand new big bokkle of Sensual Amber)...dem tell mi seh mi cyaan't tekki! GURL, I was PISSED!!!!

Suh mi tell har mi a guh put some pon mi hand dem...mi walk ova tuh deh garbage can...put some pon mi hand han quick quick ton hit ova han DUMP... OUT...HEVERY...DROP inna the garbage.

Wan BIG DUTTY LINEBACKER officer come running hup pon mi..."MA'AM MA'AM YUH CYAAN'T DUH DAT...TOP HIT TOP HIT NOW!!!" AH start lickhoff mi arm...HARD! Mi seh 'Why?" (Still dashing deh lotion inna deh garbage)...Suh yuh can tek fi mi lotion han guh pretty hup fuh yuh man!? First of all...NOT PON MY DIME...gwaan guh buy yuh hown han Second..hit wouldda tek a HELLA alot more dan mi poor likkle lotion fi pretty YUH hup!!! NOW, KINDLY TEK YUH HAND OFFA MI...BEFORE MI HAFFI GUH CALL MI EMBASSY PON YUH!! I don't think they would appreciate you unjustly placing you hands on an AMERICAN CITIZEN!!!"...inna mi sweetest southern twang!!

Mi seh deh oddah Yardies behind mi pon line LAFF... dem laff dem laff dem laff huntil!!

Mi seh deh ooman Vex she Vex she Vex...huntil!!! But she knoa she couldn't do mi nuttin!!! Dem DYAM OUTTA HORDER!!

Gill

Yes..a so dutty Kingston stay dem badmind lika wah..cyan stand dem...and di whole a dem just look like dem a roll inna flour as Lawny says... I was overweight on every blasted things...I separated my glass vased between the nine suitcases so at least dem couldn't search di ole blasted 9 a dem...

Gill, was u woulda duh if dem tell yuh, yuh cyan bring milk fi u pickney...well of course mi do di same ting dash weh every bit of it ...and den tell dem when she start bawl there is nuttin mi can do ...so di res a di passengers a go feel it....and mi a go bodda oonuh hostess like there is no tomorrow fi juice and whatever else dem store back dere

Congrats to all that have an interview coming up in Feb/March. I am so jealous but happy none-the-less for you all. One day I will be sharing my good news and celebrating with you all

We got an Interview Date ------------------- March 11, 2008 @ 8:00am

I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUESTION CONCERNING INTERVIEW?????????????????

1. Does my SO's child have to go to the interview?

2. Does my SO's child have to get a medical as well?

We filed K-3 and her daughter is a K-4

Sorry 1 more question?????????

How many days past the interview should I plan on before she can come to America?

Need to buy plane tickets and I want to be safe.

Congrats on the interview date Jason and Marla

J.,

1).We are taking my step-son to be with us.

2). We are making sure that we have my step-son-to-be's shot card and medical history with us.

3). From former Yardie filers I see an average of 7-10 business days til SO gets the actual visa in hand!

The medical question about child is a good one. I will call the 202 number I gave you and ask.

I filed a K1 & K2.

I CAN'T BELIEVE WE HAVE THE SAME DATE!!!!

That's awesome...GOOD LUCK J!!!! How did you find out?

Bless,
Gill